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Jayce vs Jayko

American parents have registered 47,162 Jayces since 1880, against 267 Jaykos. Jayce is still ahead, with 2,230 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jayce against Jayko, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jayce Jayko

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jayce has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1929 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Jayce had 926 and Jayko had 22.

Side by side

  Jayce Jayko
Total US births 47,162267
Most in one year 3,19124
Babies in 2025 2,230under 5
Estimated living today 47,000270
Median age today 99
Peak year 20152016
Best rank 132nd boys4,199th boys
Rank in 2025 167thunranked
First recorded 19292009
Girls / boys 1,739 / 45,4230 / 267

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jayce and Jayko.